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Yet with most of her life passed at the great lonely country-house by the bright river: qazing wistfully out of the deep-mullioned windows of diamond panes; flitting up and down the wide staircase of carven oak; buried in its library, with its wainscoted walls crossed with swords and hung with portraits of soldierly faces: all of which pleased him best, he being a home-lover.
It had been built in the days of Queen Bess; and was just such a house as that in which Justice Shallow might have entertained Falstaff a long grey building with a porch in the centre and a huge gable at either end a house with deep-mullioned windows and large stacks of chimney-pots.
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